Hi Frank, I don't know about your LCD monitor but mine is pretty dim when outdoors, but if you are speaking about calibrating it for "decent" appearance, the Calibrate feature in the Color preference tab in Display System Preference works very well in Panther. But Color can be dicey depending on your viewing conditions. Mike ______________________ Anyway, I'd like to get the LCD monitor set up as well as I can. I suppose a software/hardware combo would be best (recommendations please ;-), but other, more general techniques might be fine for my somewhat-less-than-100%-critical application. Thoughts? Comments? Criticisms? TIA, Frank Wiewandt